My first telescope was a 2.5-inch Gilbert reflector my parents bought for me in about 1964. It wasn't easy to use, but I remember looking at the moon, Mars and Saturn with it.

Telescopes come in many different flavors of optical design, or how the telescope collects and directs light. There are reflector telescopes, refractors, Schmidt-Cassegrains and more.

Hardly! In a past column (April 2011), I sang the praises of my first astronomical telescope, Edmund Scientific’s Space Conqueror, a 3-inch f/10 reflector.

We review the Unistellar eVscope eQuinox telescope, a pricey but easy-to-use tool for casual stargazers to see celestial objects generally impossible from light-polluted backyards.

Celestron Inspire 100AZ telescope review: price and release date The Celestron Inspire 100AZ originally went on sale in 2017 and costs in the region of $360 / £249 / AU$600. It’s the biggest ...

But what the modern telescopes do there, these are more reflector telescopes, and these are ones that use mirrors instead of lenses. And so reflectors are all the rage now because you can make ...